Wednesday, December 14, 2005

MARVEL COMICS FOR MARCH

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WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN ANIMATED UPDATE

Jason Netter of Kickstart Entertainment is producing the new Wolverine and the X-Men animated series.

"We're just ramping up the writing and the artistic development," Netter told The Continuum. "Full production will start early next year."

Netter's many credits include the Painkiller Jane movie that aired on Sci fi last Saturday night. Among the projects he is attached as either a producer or executive producer to include Wanted, a live-action movie at Universal; Battle Chasers, a live-action film at 20th Centry Fox; and Amazing Screw-on Head, an animated series for Sci Fi.

Greg Johnson is the series' story editor. He wrote all four of Marvel's straight-to-DVD animated movies -- Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2, Iron Man and Doctor Strange -- and was a writer, story editor and producer on Kids' WB!'s X-Men: Evolution animated series.

The series, announced in October, will come from Marvel and India's First Serve Toonz.

Twenty-six episodes, in a 2D-3D combination of characters and background, are being produced The initial episodes are expected to be ready for worldwide distribution by summer 2007.

TEEN TITANS, KRYPTO FOR JANUARY

Cartoon Network has released its schedule for January.

For a rundown of Teen Titans and Krypto the Superdog episodes, CLICK HERE.

BRIEFLY

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COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES

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